Count & Amount
"North America has lost nearly three billion birds since 1970...details widespread population declines among hundreds of North American bird species, including those once considered abundant."

Bird World is Broken
If you did not see this coming, you were not watching. See the links below.

The world of birds has already been turned topsey-turvey. The changing timing and character of the seasons has broken the ancient relationship of bird hatching and migration timing to the blooms and bugs of Spring, dealing a hard blow to birds everywhere.

Insect World Too
Add to this, "misfit," of bird's increasing "misalignment," of migration and hatching timing to the progression of the seasons a simultaneous radical decline in insect (and fish) populations everywhere, and we can begin to understand the bird's dilemma, explain their current decline, and expect even more dramatic declines in the future, as the elements of every aspect of our ecosystem's ancient relationships with our climate continue to rapidly unwind.

Birds are one important, "canary," in the, "coal mine," of this Planet Earth.

Stupid Human Tricks
Add to these fundamental climate and ecosystem changes torturing the birds today, (and the plants, insects, and fish...), to our ever-increasing land use, our ever-expanding arsenal of pesticides deployed everywhere, and our driving the loss of migratory way stations due to drying out and development.

We've put the birds, (and the plants, insects, and fish...), into a world of pain.

Long Bird Troubles
As our look at recent research into birds, phenology, and insects reveals below, the birds have long been suffering badly from the effects of the serious changes to the timing of the seasons that our corporate program of irresponsible growth has created and driven forward to this dire point, as have the plant, insect, and fish populations the birds require to survive.

The Birds are, and Have Been in Deep Trouble for quite a While.

Recent Research
Watching the Birds Collapsing within their Climates and Ecosystems

Ours Too, Lest We've Forgotten
These are, "our," climate & ecosystems too, but we are higher up on the, "chains of causation and effect," than the poor birds are, as we humans are protected by the same technology causing and driving these damages, while the birds, bees, fish, and trees are all feeling the full brutal brunt of the effects of our savage corporate greed, far earlier and more deeply than us humans have...so far.
We humans will eventually feel the full effects of our destruction of the ancient and traditional climates and ecosystems which feed us too, just like the birds, insects, plants and fish are now. But our suffering will be much more profound, without the birds, insects, fish and trees here to shield us from our own effects, as they are doing today.

Flocking Beautiful
When I was a child crossing The Big Valley, I was delighted watching massive starling flocks so large they were beyond my ability to observe the movements of their totality,
Today, the same areas have flocks only as large as the tiny flock so beautifully displayed below;Watch this Amazing Video

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